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- 0:01Speaker 1: Welcome to Huddle Up.
- 0:03Speaker 2: Frock you by the Fields Total Group, Jaguars Senior writer
- 0:08Speaker 2: John Osher, NFL network analyst and former Jaguar Bucky Brooks,
- 0:12Speaker 2: and Senior reporter J. P. Shadders bring you the latest
- 0:16Speaker 2: on your Jacksonville Jaguars.
- 0:19Speaker 1: Huddle Up starts right now and welcome in.
- 0:22Speaker 3: It is Huddle Up with Bucky Brooks Wednesday, November sixth,
- 0:25Speaker 3: and we've got a busy show ahead as the Jaguars
- 0:28Speaker 3: prepared to face the Minnesota Vikings in week ten, the
- 0:31Speaker 3: trade deadline in the rear view, the quarterback is on
- 0:35Speaker 3: the injury report.
- 0:37Speaker 1: This week. We'll get to that.
- 0:39Speaker 3: A final look at the Jaguars Eagles game because we must,
- 0:44Speaker 3: and a first look, of course at the Vikings Jaguars
- 0:46Speaker 3: matchup as the Jaguars get back into the NFC North,
- 0:49Speaker 3: the toughest division in the NFL. Huddle Up with Bucky
- 0:52Speaker 3: Brooks is brought to you by Field's Auto Group, Jacksonville.
- 0:55Speaker 3: See Fields First, Jacksonville's premier luxury auto group. Go to
- 0:59Speaker 3: Field's Auto dot Com. JP Shadwick with John Osier. We're
- 1:02Speaker 3: at the Honday studios of the Miller Electric Center. Bucky
- 1:06Speaker 3: Brooks is in Los Angeles, La Bucky, We love La Bucky.
- 1:11Speaker 1: Good afternoon, Bucky. How are you. I'm good.
- 1:14Speaker 4: What's going on, guys?
- 1:16Speaker 1: Well A lot?
- 1:16Speaker 3: I mean, you know, obviously the trade deadline came and went.
- 1:20Speaker 3: Jaguars had no extra movement from after Cam Robinson's deal
- 1:24Speaker 3: and Roy robertson Harris. Those are the two in season
- 1:26Speaker 3: trades with the jagsus year. And then today when the
- 1:30Speaker 3: quarterbacks dinged up and is limited at practice, that's always news, Bucky.
- 1:34Speaker 3: So non throwing shoulder, we're told her upper body, I
- 1:37Speaker 3: guess is what came out of the game last week.
- 1:41Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 1:42Speaker 5: No, here's the thing, And I look, I thought there
- 1:45Speaker 5: was something to that when you're when you're sitting at
- 1:47Speaker 5: halftime and Trevor has to go get an X ray
- 1:49Speaker 5: and you don't know if he's going to start, if
- 1:51Speaker 5: mac Jones's gonna start.
- 1:52Speaker 4: He certainly had getting beat up a little bit in
- 1:54Speaker 4: that game.
- 1:55Speaker 5: And what you hope is at some point he's able
- 1:57Speaker 5: to come back and return uh to practice. But one
- 1:59Speaker 5: of the reasons why you signed mac Jones is so
- 2:02Speaker 5: we could avoid what happened last year where Trevor went
- 2:04Speaker 5: through a series of weeks where he couldn't practice, but
- 2:07Speaker 5: he played and it impacted his performance. If he's hurt
- 2:11Speaker 5: and hurt enough where you don't feel good about him playing,
- 2:14Speaker 5: you have a former first round in Mac Jones, You
- 2:16Speaker 5: roll with Mac Jones, and you kind of figure out
- 2:18Speaker 5: a way to win with Mac Jones as your quarterback.
- 2:20Speaker 6: Yeah, this is the scenario. So it's uh, And.
- 2:23Speaker 3: They brought on CJ. Bethterard from the practice squad of
- 2:25Speaker 3: the Dolphins. That kind of was before all the talking today.
- 2:29Speaker 6: Well, and I don't think you bring in CJ unless
- 2:33Speaker 6: there's a real chance that Trevor can't play. So, you know,
- 2:38Speaker 6: I think the all we're gonna know this week is
- 2:42Speaker 6: that Trevor is tough. He's played through this kind of
- 2:47Speaker 6: thing or I shouldn't say the kind of things. I
- 2:49Speaker 6: don't know how the seriousness is, but he's played through
- 2:50Speaker 6: stuff before. He'll play if he can be out there.
- 2:53Speaker 6: But yeah, without question, this is why now you feel
- 2:59Speaker 6: less inclined to pressure or to say, hey, Trevor, we
- 3:06Speaker 6: need you to play. You're supposed to be able to
- 3:09Speaker 6: win with your backup quarterbacks a couple.
- 3:11Speaker 3: And this would have been the scenario last season, had
- 3:13Speaker 3: you know, maybe Mac or somebody at that level been
- 3:15Speaker 3: on the roster.
- 3:16Speaker 6: No, what you never know is, look, the starting quarterback,
- 3:22Speaker 6: if he wants to play and feels like he's ready,
- 3:25Speaker 6: there's a little bit of benefit of the doubt that
- 3:27Speaker 6: guy has to get. Yeah, But then Bucky, that's also
- 3:33Speaker 6: I guess that's the art of being a head coach, right,
- 3:36Speaker 6: of knowing how much a leverage isn't the right word,
- 3:43Speaker 6: how much leeway the quarterback should get versus Hey, I
- 3:46Speaker 6: get it, kid, but but we got to go a
- 3:49Speaker 6: different direction because you know, you can't protect yourself or
- 3:53Speaker 6: you know, whatever factor there is. There's no blueprint for this,
- 3:57Speaker 6: I guess to what I'm saying, I'm trying to say.
- 4:00Speaker 5: No, there's not a blueprint for it, but it is
- 4:03Speaker 5: something that you want to maybe do a better job
- 4:05Speaker 5: than you did last year because Trevor's play through injury
- 4:10Speaker 5: was detrimental to his performance last season, and a lot
- 4:13Speaker 5: of the stuff that happened at the end of last
- 4:15Speaker 5: season might have affected the way that he played this season.
- 4:18Speaker 5: Just from a confidence standpoint, you want to protect the
- 4:21Speaker 5: player from the player, and if you're Doug Peterson, you
- 4:25Speaker 5: understand the severity of the injury you had a backup
- 4:29Speaker 5: policy and Mac Jones.
- 4:31Speaker 4: You got him for a reason.
- 4:32Speaker 5: You got to trust the play and the plan is
- 4:34Speaker 5: get mac Jones in case I'm having to Trevor handleball
- 4:36Speaker 5: to Mac Jones if Trevor camp play.
- 4:37Speaker 6: Yeah, JP. People have been trying to protect me from
- 4:40Speaker 6: me all my life, so I get it.
- 4:42Speaker 1: Hey you're stubborn.
- 4:43Speaker 4: Well, yea, it hasn't worked, certainly, it's not.
- 4:48Speaker 3: We got plenty ahead on the Vikings Jaguars matchup, presented
- 4:52Speaker 3: by CSX this coming Sunday in week ten CSX how
- 4:56Speaker 3: Tomorrow Moves. However, let's take a final look back at
- 5:00Speaker 3: the Eagles Jaguars matchup a game. Stop me if you've
- 5:04Speaker 3: heard this before. The Jaguars were in an early deficit
- 5:08Speaker 3: in the game. This time it was twenty two nothing,
- 5:11Speaker 3: and somehow found a way to stay in the game.
- 5:14Speaker 3: They finally got a drive on offense after thirty one
- 5:17Speaker 3: yards and one first down in the first half. They
- 5:20Speaker 3: got something in the third quarter, going got a touchdown
- 5:22Speaker 3: the improbable takeaway and fumble return touchdown from Trayvon Walker
- 5:28Speaker 3: on just a razor thin margin for air or play
- 5:31Speaker 3: that was so close to being down, but it wasn't.
- 5:34Speaker 1: It was a fumble.
- 5:35Speaker 3: And they had to talk to the poor reporter after
- 5:38Speaker 3: the game with a replay official. All that happened to
- 5:41Speaker 3: get the Jags back within one score and then of
- 5:43Speaker 3: course the third takeaway of the game on the final
- 5:47Speaker 3: drive on a first down play, I throw the left
- 5:50Speaker 3: side of the end zone ended it. So unfortunately a
- 5:52Speaker 3: little bit short by five points in the game.
- 5:54Speaker 6: Yeah, and it unfortunately it feels like to me this
- 6:01Speaker 6: is what they are, meaning they've lost five games in
- 6:05Speaker 6: the last two minutes easily, you know, I say easily
- 6:11Speaker 6: could have been x, right, But also what the league
- 6:17Speaker 6: is is winning games like this in the last couple
- 6:20Speaker 6: of weeks. You know, I don't think I can say
- 6:25Speaker 6: either of the last two weeks that I walked out
- 6:26Speaker 6: of the stadium thinking the Jaguars blew that one to
- 6:31Speaker 6: a team they should have beaten. You know, they would
- 6:34Speaker 6: have been playing a little bit above what you expected
- 6:38Speaker 6: to win either one. So in that sense, you give
- 6:43Speaker 6: the players points for you know, Valiants, I guess, But
- 6:50Speaker 6: I'm also tired of that, right, I mean, I think
- 6:53Speaker 6: fans listening to this or tired. Well, they played hard,
- 6:55Speaker 6: they so I think they're a team right now. That
- 7:00Speaker 6: is when it's gonna take something unusual for them to
- 7:06Speaker 6: get over that hump, because they've shown us what they are.
- 7:09Speaker 6: And I wish that wasn't true, but that feels like
- 7:12Speaker 6: what this season has been, Bucky.
- 7:14Speaker 4: It has been that.
- 7:15Speaker 5: And when people show you who they are, you got
- 7:17Speaker 5: to believe them. And Bill par Sales will say you
- 7:21Speaker 5: are what your record is. And the Jaguars are sitting
- 7:23Speaker 5: at two and seven, and we can talk about them
- 7:25Speaker 5: having five losses by five points and fewer, but there
- 7:28Speaker 5: was still losses. Have been able to make the key
- 7:30Speaker 5: plays when you need to make him in the late.
- 7:33Speaker 4: Stages of games, so you have to own it. And DEEG.
- 7:37Speaker 5: Peterson was at his presso talking about accountability and how
- 7:40Speaker 5: to you keep the team playing hard in those things
- 7:42Speaker 5: you show them to tape, you talk about the little things,
- 7:45Speaker 5: you hold them accountable for doing the little things. I mean, look,
- 7:49Speaker 5: it's been a year and a half talking about the
- 7:51Speaker 5: same talk, right We've had the same conversation in some way,
- 7:54Speaker 5: shape or form since last year, and the team still
- 7:57Speaker 5: has not done it. He can continue to preach it,
- 7:59Speaker 5: but until the take the message to heart, it will
- 8:02Speaker 5: be the same result over and over and over.
- 8:05Speaker 6: Again, and Bucky, am I reading this right, it sort
- 8:09Speaker 6: of feels like to the Eagles, rightly or wrongly, it
- 8:13Speaker 6: kind of showed me they're a team that is Maybe
- 8:20Speaker 6: I don't know if matures the right word or experience whatever,
- 8:24Speaker 6: but Saquon Barkley makes some big time plays to win
- 8:28Speaker 6: that game. Jalen Hurts makes some big time plays to
- 8:30Speaker 6: win that game. DeVante Smith, they're big time players. The
- 8:36Speaker 6: DeVante Smith play, I mean, everybody's talking about the Saquon
- 8:39Speaker 6: play because it made headlines, but the Smith catch at
- 8:42Speaker 6: the end of the or on third and twenty two,
- 8:45Speaker 6: that play should have been a field goal, right, that
- 8:47Speaker 6: should have been three points, but Hurts threw it up
- 8:51Speaker 6: trusted and said, my guy can make that play. I
- 8:54Speaker 6: think the Jaguars have Brian Thomas Junior who can make
- 8:56Speaker 6: that play. Trayvon on defense is that level guy. I
- 9:03Speaker 6: don't know if the Jaguars like BTJ may not be
- 9:07Speaker 6: there yet in that moment. I think he's gonna be
- 9:10Speaker 6: that player going forward. But Bucky, it felt like the
- 9:14Speaker 6: big time players were the difference in that game on Sunday.
- 9:18Speaker 5: And I would say the Eagles won in spite of
- 9:21Speaker 5: the faulty and flaw coaching that Nick Sirianni provided them.
- 9:26Speaker 1: This was a game.
- 9:26Speaker 5: If I'm an Eagles fan, I'm upset because this was
- 9:29Speaker 5: a game that should have been forty to something. For
- 9:32Speaker 5: the Eagles, they had more than enough opportunities, particularly in
- 9:36Speaker 5: the first half, to knock the Jaguars out.
- 9:38Speaker 4: To the Jaguars credit, they fought and got back.
- 9:41Speaker 5: But for our team, yeah, they're not enough guys that
- 9:45Speaker 5: are making those gotta have it plays in those moments. Offensively,
- 9:50Speaker 5: Brian Thomas Junior is the number one receiver. He is
- 9:53Speaker 5: second to the second guy with rate as Evan Ingram,
- 9:57Speaker 5: and then I would say Tank Bigsby and Travis Etienn
- 10:00Speaker 5: and forth in terms of the pecking order in critical moments,
- 10:04Speaker 5: the ball.
- 10:04Speaker 4: Has to go to your best players.
- 10:06Speaker 5: I am disappointed at the ball somehow found this way
- 10:09Speaker 5: to Darrenis Johnson.
- 10:10Speaker 4: He's a solid player, he's a good player in his role.
- 10:14Speaker 5: But games should not be decided on whether we throw
- 10:16Speaker 5: fifty fifty balls up to the Dearnie Johnson. And so that's
- 10:19Speaker 5: something that has to improve. And whether that's a coordinator thing,
- 10:23Speaker 5: whether that's the Trevor thing, the ball needs to end
- 10:25Speaker 5: up in the direction of your best players, because those
- 10:29Speaker 5: guys are the most impactful players that you have on
- 10:31Speaker 5: your team.
- 10:32Speaker 3: Or if it's covered, throw it into the stands. I
- 10:35Speaker 3: mean that I lived second down.
- 10:37Speaker 5: Yeah, that's also another good idea to understand situation to
- 10:41Speaker 5: make sure that you don't make a bad play. Yes,
- 10:44Speaker 5: that is something that you definitely want to consider and
- 10:46Speaker 5: probably execute.
- 10:47Speaker 3: All right, we've got plenty ahead. We'll come back in
- 10:50Speaker 3: a moment, and we're going to move it forward. The
- 10:52Speaker 3: Eagles game is flushed. We're done with it, complete with
- 10:56Speaker 3: sound effects. This is huddle up with bucket b.
- 11:06Speaker 7: I think the talent around him, you know, I mean
- 11:08Speaker 7: that helps, right, I mean just having having having the
- 11:11Speaker 7: run game of the defense, the way the defense has played,
- 11:16Speaker 7: you know, being in in coach O'Connell's system and in
- 11:19Speaker 7: the way he calls plays, I think is helpful. And
- 11:22Speaker 7: and look, he's he's always been. He's always been a
- 11:26Speaker 7: solid quarterback and whatever team or role he's on. I
- 11:31Speaker 7: just think now he's learning, maturing and and showing.
- 11:36Speaker 4: That he's capable of doing it.
- 11:37Speaker 7: And and that's what you're seeing on on film, you know,
- 11:40Speaker 7: taking care of the football.
- 11:41Speaker 4: That's a big part of this thing.
- 11:42Speaker 7: And and to yes, Justin Jefferson is a you know,
- 11:46Speaker 7: obviously an elite receiver in this league that you know
- 11:50Speaker 7: can can recavoc on you.
- 11:52Speaker 3: Said coach Doug Peterson today asked about Sam Darnold and
- 11:56Speaker 3: his effectiveness so far.
- 11:58Speaker 1: Welcome back.
- 11:58Speaker 3: It's huddle up with but he brookes j P Shadwick,
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- 12:27Speaker 3: Sam Darnald.
- 12:28Speaker 6: I have a question for the scout, okay, or for
- 12:30Speaker 6: the league analyst, and I know this is what we're
- 12:32Speaker 6: talking about, so I've jumped in on you JP.
- 12:34Speaker 4: Okay.
- 12:36Speaker 6: You know Sam Donald, is he part of a trend
- 12:39Speaker 6: meaning a second team guy. He's on his second team
- 12:44Speaker 6: right JP thir thirteen. Well even better, even better for
- 12:47Speaker 6: my point.
- 12:48Speaker 1: Fourth team? Right? Who is fourth team?
- 12:51Speaker 6: The league so much different, Bucky than the NFL in
- 12:55Speaker 6: college football? Are we going to see more guys like
- 12:59Speaker 6: the es who need time, who get given up on
- 13:03Speaker 6: at the quarterback position? And now Mayfield's doing it, and
- 13:09Speaker 6: I think we're about to see a lot of these guys.
- 13:13Speaker 5: Yeah, we're gonna see a lot of it because the
- 13:15Speaker 5: first teams aren't exhibiting the patients that you probably need
- 13:18Speaker 5: to with a young player.
- 13:19Speaker 6: But can then, right, I get why they don't do it.
- 13:23Speaker 6: The league set up poorly for these guys. Right now,
- 13:28Speaker 6: it is.
- 13:28Speaker 4: But then the other thing I would say, John, like,
- 13:31Speaker 4: when you take that it should be an investment.
- 13:33Speaker 5: And so rather than the rush to get guys on
- 13:35Speaker 5: the field, the rush should be to develop.
- 13:37Speaker 4: Them until they're ready to play.
- 13:39Speaker 5: And the best teams should draft a quarterback before you
- 13:44Speaker 5: need a quarterback. And so if you have a quarterback
- 13:46Speaker 5: that is nearing the end of his run, maybe two
- 13:49Speaker 5: years before he's done, you begin to bring into young
- 13:51Speaker 5: quarterbacks so you can develop him and give him an opportunity.
- 13:54Speaker 5: We have seen that model work multiple instances in Green Bay.
- 13:58Speaker 5: We've seen it work in Kansas City, Alex Smith and
- 14:00Speaker 5: Pat Mahomes.
- 14:02Speaker 4: There's a way that.
- 14:03Speaker 5: You can successfully prepare your young quarterback. And what executives
- 14:08Speaker 5: have to do is ignore the outside noise that are
- 14:09Speaker 5: telling you eight o'clock is running. We got to get
- 14:11Speaker 5: him in the super Bowl window during this rookie contract.
- 14:14Speaker 5: It should be when can we get him ready to play?
- 14:18Speaker 5: And we will play and when he's ready to play,
- 14:19Speaker 5: whether it's this year, next year, or two years from now,
- 14:22Speaker 5: we need to do what's right by the player as
- 14:25Speaker 5: opposed to trying to get the quick fix and do
- 14:27Speaker 5: it with a cheap rookie contract that quarterback.
- 14:29Speaker 3: I mean, same idea in Atlanta, right, except Pennix is
- 14:31Speaker 3: a little bit older than the normal rookie coming in
- 14:34Speaker 3: in a first round pick. I mean he's what twenty
- 14:36Speaker 3: six years old or something, But same idea with cousins there.
- 14:41Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, look, yeah, he's a little older, but
- 14:43Speaker 5: not not like Brandon Weed or any of those guys.
- 14:45Speaker 5: I mean he's like twenty five whatever. But that's still
- 14:48Speaker 5: the same premise. You want to have him in the building,
- 14:53Speaker 5: you want to have him learn from the veteran. You
- 14:55Speaker 5: want him to make all the mistakes on the practice field,
- 14:57Speaker 5: so when he's given the ball, he feels comfortable. In
- 14:59Speaker 5: the nat Football League and we can talk about the
- 15:03Speaker 5: speed of.
- 15:04Speaker 4: The game and how you may be prepared or whatever.
- 15:05Speaker 5: The NFL is a different ball of wax than anything
- 15:08Speaker 5: that you've experienced as a collegiate player, and the teams
- 15:11Speaker 5: that you're seeing that kind of take a slow cook
- 15:15Speaker 5: process when it comes to the quarterback and having more success.
- 15:18Speaker 5: The other thing that you're seeing is because Baker Mayfield
- 15:20Speaker 5: and Sam Donald are cast off very early in their careers,
- 15:24Speaker 5: general managers will always give those guys two or three
- 15:26Speaker 5: bites at the apple because if you were a first
- 15:28Speaker 5: round pick, universally they viewed you as someone who had
- 15:32Speaker 5: enough talent to deserve multiple chances to see if you
- 15:35Speaker 5: can unlock it. New environment, new scheme, new coach, whatever
- 15:39Speaker 5: it is. You get those second and third chances when
- 15:41Speaker 5: you're a top pick.
- 15:42Speaker 6: Yeah, JPI, had somebody asked me the O today, Oh,
- 15:44Speaker 6: Anthony Richardson, he's going to be done.
- 15:47Speaker 1: He won't be.
- 15:49Speaker 6: A chance, and maybe he might be a guy who
- 15:52Speaker 6: sort of fits into this too. I have no idea
- 15:54Speaker 6: what the cultu are going to do obviously, but he
- 15:57Speaker 6: goes to a team after this season if they happen
- 15:59Speaker 6: to do that through that route. Sobody says, yeah, we'll
- 16:02Speaker 6: take them, We'll sit them for two years, and we'll
- 16:05Speaker 6: let them because we can't. You say it's the Browns.
- 16:08Speaker 6: I don't know who would be. But the Browns can say, yeah,
- 16:10Speaker 6: there's no pressure here. None of our fans expect anything
- 16:13Speaker 6: from this guy, so we can take our time with
- 16:16Speaker 6: this guy, whereas in the Colts you couldn't. So it's uh,
- 16:19Speaker 6: but I don't know if we're going to see much
- 16:22Speaker 6: of a change bucket because I don't think most franchises
- 16:26Speaker 6: have the patience to draft a guy early and then
- 16:28Speaker 6: give them time. The ones that know what they're doing
- 16:33Speaker 6: do and have the patience to tell their fans, yeah,
- 16:36Speaker 6: we hear the noise, but you know, you go ahead
- 16:39Speaker 6: and make your noise. We're going to do it the
- 16:40Speaker 6: right way. It's hard, It's really hard. Yeah, it is hard,
- 16:44Speaker 6: but it takes complete buy in.
- 16:45Speaker 5: It takes buy in not only from the coach being
- 16:48Speaker 5: able to do it, but everyone has to be in alignment,
- 16:50Speaker 5: from top to bottom, ownership, front office, coaches. This is
- 16:54Speaker 5: the best player for us to take we need a
- 16:56Speaker 5: franchise quarterback. We're not going to play this franchise quarterback
- 16:58Speaker 5: into twenty twenty six. So I just need you to understand, Yes,
- 17:02Speaker 5: we use the top pick, but we're gonna ignore the
- 17:03Speaker 5: noise for everyone saying he has to get them to
- 17:05Speaker 5: the field and we're going to develop him the right way.
- 17:08Speaker 5: And if you do that and you're successful doing it
- 17:10Speaker 5: down the line, the owner saved millions on millions on
- 17:14Speaker 5: millions of dollars because he has a quarterback for the
- 17:17Speaker 5: next decade. You need to make sure that you're getting
- 17:20Speaker 5: the right guys and you need to have a plan
- 17:21Speaker 5: that really works. We're seeing too many young guys cycled
- 17:24Speaker 5: in and out of the starting lineup by this second year.
- 17:28Speaker 5: There's not enough time to full the evaluate if a
- 17:29Speaker 5: player could play or not.
- 17:30Speaker 6: JP remember the stink in Atlanta when they draft.
- 17:33Speaker 1: Oh no doubt. Yeah, people paying.
- 17:35Speaker 6: Them like they were idiots. And you know, when you
- 17:37Speaker 6: really look at how you do it, yeah, the approach
- 17:42Speaker 6: makes no sense.
- 17:43Speaker 3: Two years from now and we'll find out right just
- 17:45Speaker 3: in Atlanta, you know what helps the quarterback really increase
- 17:48Speaker 3: their level of play. A guy named Justin Jefferson on
- 17:52Speaker 3: the outside right and a running game to go with it,
- 17:55Speaker 3: and other receivers who can play. Oh and maybe the
- 17:57Speaker 3: tight end's coming back this week too. When you have
- 17:59Speaker 3: those piece and offensive line that's really darn good for
- 18:03Speaker 3: the most part, they just had it Cam Robinson a
- 18:04Speaker 3: left tackle on an injury there. When you have Justin
- 18:07Speaker 3: Jefferson out there, you always have a chance bucket. It
- 18:09Speaker 3: feels like, what is it about Justin's game? And I mean,
- 18:13Speaker 3: what's is There's nothing lacking from their game?
- 18:15Speaker 1: Is there?
- 18:16Speaker 5: No, there's nothing lacking for the game. And I think
- 18:18Speaker 5: the thing that is remarkable. Normally when you see a
- 18:20Speaker 5: guy who is as decorated as he is, he was
- 18:22Speaker 5: someone that came in the first round who was would
- 18:26Speaker 5: have all of the tools that.
- 18:28Speaker 4: You look for.
- 18:29Speaker 5: I mean, he would be a top five or top
- 18:30Speaker 5: ten pick or whatever. Justin Jefferson is different because slender frame,
- 18:35Speaker 5: slight build. But what he is is a high level
- 18:38Speaker 5: alpha dog competitor who shows up in the biggest and
- 18:41Speaker 5: brightest moments. He's a terrific pass catcher, he has great
- 18:45Speaker 5: ball skills, outstanding right route runner. But beyond all of
- 18:50Speaker 5: those things, the one word that I was described Justin
- 18:53Speaker 5: Jefferson as clutch.
- 18:54Speaker 4: When the game is on the line and they need
- 18:56Speaker 4: a play.
- 18:58Speaker 5: Justin Jefferson is going to make that plays the time
- 19:00Speaker 5: and time again in his young career.
- 19:02Speaker 6: Yeah, so hard to scout. Some team's passed on him twice.
- 19:05Speaker 4: That's amazing, right, that it is?
- 19:08Speaker 6: It is, I leave it.
- 19:10Speaker 3: Yeah, And he's going against the Jaguars defense that has
- 19:14Speaker 3: struggled certainly to say the least in the passing game
- 19:17Speaker 3: this year and giving up big plays. We just talked
- 19:20Speaker 3: about it, big plays, big moments, you know down the field.
- 19:23Speaker 3: They give up seven plays at twenty or more yards
- 19:26Speaker 3: last week.
- 19:26Speaker 4: The Jags did all right.
- 19:28Speaker 6: And the striking thing in their JP is all the
- 19:30Speaker 6: third and longs, third, long, That just it's become a
- 19:34Speaker 6: theme this week. I know, third and forever. Bucky wrote
- 19:38Speaker 6: it and has always well done. Scouts take this morning,
- 19:41Speaker 6: but it's it's, uh, I'm not sure or see anything
- 19:45Speaker 6: like it, the not only what it does to you
- 19:48Speaker 6: on the field, but the crushing gut punch of the moment.
- 19:53Speaker 6: To feel like twice in that game the other day,
- 19:56Speaker 6: and it's been a season long thing. You feel like, Okay,
- 19:59Speaker 6: they're gonna get up three, they played good defense, You're
- 20:03Speaker 6: third and long, Okay, they got out of it, and
- 20:06Speaker 6: then boom touchdown, Boom touchdown. Not only is it eight points,
- 20:10Speaker 6: but it's just the feeling that you did your job
- 20:12Speaker 6: and now it's gone like it's it's crushing. And to me,
- 20:16Speaker 6: the two things that define this season are those plays,
- 20:19Speaker 6: you know, not being able to get off the field
- 20:22Speaker 6: on third and long and then the slow starts. I mean, yeah,
- 20:27Speaker 6: those things. It's not hard to believe you're two and
- 20:29Speaker 6: seven when you're playing in those situations like that.
- 20:33Speaker 4: Yeh. Look, it's a tough thing to talk about because.
- 20:39Speaker 5: In the offseason Ryan Nielsen talked about nothing cheap and
- 20:42Speaker 5: nothing deep, being able to have the awareness to keep
- 20:45Speaker 5: everything in front of the defense despite being a team
- 20:47Speaker 5: that leaned heavily into man to man. The thing that
- 20:51Speaker 5: is really frustrating to me when I watched the team,
- 20:55Speaker 5: I mean multiple times on third and forever, we talked
- 20:58Speaker 5: about forever being fifteen plus.
- 21:00Speaker 4: They gave it up. The first one they give up
- 21:02Speaker 4: to Saquon Barkley.
- 21:03Speaker 5: They run an inside running play, he doesn't get touched
- 21:06Speaker 5: on a nineteen yard scamper into the end zone, which
- 21:09Speaker 5: is crazy to think about that.
- 21:11Speaker 4: That should have been a field goal. And then this
- 21:14Speaker 4: is time to get off the field where you got
- 21:16Speaker 4: him backed up.
- 21:17Speaker 5: It's third and forever falls in twenty two and you
- 21:19Speaker 5: let him throw it over the top of the defense.
- 21:21Speaker 5: It's problematic. And the other part that is problematic about
- 21:24Speaker 5: that drive in particular, they started out on the nine
- 21:27Speaker 5: yard line. They have a ninety one yard drive where
- 21:31Speaker 5: they had three explosive plays. Saquon Barkley pops a big one,
- 21:36Speaker 5: Devonte Smith catches it deep over and then he seals.
- 21:39Speaker 4: The deal with a touchdown over top.
- 21:42Speaker 5: To me, the Jags would never be what they could
- 21:44Speaker 5: be on defense until they eliminate the big plays.
- 21:48Speaker 4: Just too many explosive plays for.
- 21:50Speaker 5: A team that talked about neutralizing the explosive plays all offseason.
- 21:54Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 21:54Speaker 6: And the problem there is you've got to the point
- 21:56Speaker 6: where you you're not surprised.
- 22:00Speaker 3: It's almost inevitable. Oh boy, they can play a good game.
- 22:02Speaker 3: So something's coming.
- 22:03Speaker 1: Well.
- 22:04Speaker 6: And the draw, frankly, a third and seventeen, third nineteen.
- 22:08Speaker 6: I hate to keep looking back, but third nineteen draw.
- 22:11Speaker 6: You're not trying to score, No, really, I mean you'd
- 22:14Speaker 6: like to score, but you're not calling that play in
- 22:16Speaker 6: the huddle thinking we're getting seven.
- 22:18Speaker 1: Here, We're going to get about six or seven.
- 22:19Speaker 6: That's found money for that team. So it's ah.
- 22:23Speaker 3: And so the reaction on the sideline when it happened too,
- 22:25Speaker 3: I mean, they weren't expecting, they were surprised, jumping around
- 22:28Speaker 3: pretty cool.
- 22:30Speaker 6: And in fairness, I don't necessarily think the play that
- 22:33Speaker 6: DeVante Smith made, I'm not sure that that was as
- 22:39Speaker 6: much of a lapse as it was a great play.
- 22:41Speaker 6: So if you're trying to be fair, that's an NFL
- 22:44Speaker 6: player making a big time play.
- 22:45Speaker 3: All right, Let's wrap up this Jaguars defense against the
- 22:48Speaker 3: Vikings offense discussion.
- 22:49Speaker 1: With a big matchup this week.
- 22:51Speaker 3: Former Jaguars tackle Cam Robinson got a game ball last
- 22:55Speaker 3: week and his debut with the Minnesota Vikings, the first
- 22:58Speaker 3: game ball in the locker room on their website video
- 23:01Speaker 3: and all that for coming in on Wednesday and then
- 23:04Speaker 3: starting on Sunday and helping lead them to a victory
- 23:07Speaker 3: last week where they had to rally to get it
- 23:09Speaker 3: done on Sunday night against the Colts. So Cam Robinson
- 23:13Speaker 3: against Josh Heinz Allen Bucky, what's your scouting report with
- 23:17Speaker 3: this matchup.
- 23:19Speaker 5: Oh, this is the un where Josh Heines Allen has
- 23:21Speaker 5: a little book on Cam Robinson.
- 23:23Speaker 4: He's going to attack him.
- 23:24Speaker 5: To think about it, Cam Robinson has a better supporting
- 23:27Speaker 5: cast around him, and so they can do some things
- 23:29Speaker 5: to make it easier for Cam to win his blocks.
- 23:32Speaker 4: That can slide the protection to him.
- 23:34Speaker 5: He can overseet and make sure that he lures Josh
- 23:37Speaker 5: heines Allen inside. But I heard Doug talk about it
- 23:40Speaker 5: and he kind of seem nonchenline about Cam coming back like, yeah,
- 23:43Speaker 5: you know.
- 23:44Speaker 4: Probably be a little weird for him.
- 23:45Speaker 5: No, no, no, Doug, I'm gonna tell you Cam Robinson
- 23:49Speaker 5: is going to be on level ten. It might be
- 23:52Speaker 5: the best game that we've seen for him because it's personal.
- 23:55Speaker 4: He's coming back and everybody has that.
- 23:58Speaker 5: Emotion that they carry when you feel like you might
- 24:01Speaker 5: have been wrong by a team real or not, or
- 24:04Speaker 5: when you've been traded away. There's always some kind of
- 24:08Speaker 5: personal thing that you have that's gonna allow him to
- 24:11Speaker 5: play at a high emotional level.
- 24:12Speaker 4: That battle should be fun to watch though, between he
- 24:14Speaker 4: and Josh hindz out.
- 24:15Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 24:15Speaker 6: My thought on Cam and Cam I think you know,
- 24:17Speaker 6: I mean Cam JP, I think you know Cam better
- 24:21Speaker 6: than I do. You know the Bama guys. I know
- 24:24Speaker 6: you bonded a little bit with him over the years. Sure,
- 24:27Speaker 6: But my impression of Cam is that this game he
- 24:31Speaker 6: will play with his hair on, you know. And he's
- 24:34Speaker 6: the kind of guy who loves football, loves talking, loves
- 24:39Speaker 6: being in it enough that he'll play into that. My impression, too, though,
- 24:45Speaker 6: is once this is all over, meaning his career, I
- 24:48Speaker 6: think there'll be a fondness and a connection for Cam
- 24:51Speaker 6: with the Jaguars as a whole. I mean, I don't
- 24:53Speaker 6: think he's gonna in fifteen years hate the Jags, but
- 24:57Speaker 6: I think he'll have fun with this in the moment.
- 25:00Speaker 6: And you know, and it's hard to describe, but Cam
- 25:06Speaker 6: is one of the guys. He likes the money, don't
- 25:08Speaker 6: get me wrong, but he'd play football. He likes playing
- 25:11Speaker 6: football and likes being involved with it to talk and
- 25:14Speaker 6: likes interacting with other players on Twitter, likes being in it.
- 25:18Speaker 6: So I think I think he'll love this moment and
- 25:20Speaker 6: I expect him to play well.
- 25:21Speaker 1: Yeah, when he is.
- 25:22Speaker 3: In the past, we've seen it when he's had any
- 25:25Speaker 3: kind of extra motivation or need to, and he has
- 25:29Speaker 3: to crank it up. Then okay, he can go physically
- 25:33Speaker 3: move some people around. That's been at least in the
- 25:35Speaker 3: past around here. And you know, there were some questions.
- 25:39Speaker 3: I think this off season, end of the season, does
- 25:41Speaker 3: he really have that fire anymore? And you know, I
- 25:46Speaker 3: think that's part of the reason why he might not
- 25:48Speaker 3: be around here right now. And I think he'd be
- 25:51Speaker 3: about to go prove that again. So yeah, you've gotta
- 25:54Speaker 3: get ready because it's gonna go. If it goes to ten,
- 25:56Speaker 3: he might go to eleven.
- 25:57Speaker 6: It's kind of what makes football fun, right, That's what
- 25:59Speaker 6: it's supposed to. This is what it's supposed to be.
- 26:01Speaker 3: It'll be good competition and you know, they'll there'll be
- 26:04Speaker 3: some chatter back and forth and then they'll play and
- 26:06Speaker 3: then they'll shake hands with the end.
- 26:08Speaker 1: That's cam.
- 26:09Speaker 4: So you think I love JP, I love JP dot com.
- 26:13Speaker 4: You are about this.
- 26:14Speaker 5: You know absolutely well that this is going to be
- 26:17Speaker 5: like one of those personal affairs and you talk about
- 26:19Speaker 5: there be some banner and all that. Uh, look, I
- 26:21Speaker 5: think it's going to be beyond that, just because of
- 26:23Speaker 5: the ending. And I know it hasn't been fully shared
- 26:26Speaker 5: or whatever, but I can tell you it was a
- 26:27Speaker 5: very contentious conversation UH that they had at that last
- 26:30Speaker 5: game that Cam was at UH.
- 26:32Speaker 4: I think that carries over and whenever a player.
- 26:35Speaker 5: Never remember we all have big egos and so we
- 26:38Speaker 5: always feel like we've been wrong and we're always looking
- 26:41Speaker 5: for that one little nugget to prove people wrong. The
- 26:46Speaker 5: Jaguars have given Cam that nugget. I think he will
- 26:48Speaker 5: play at a higher level. And also remember this, he
- 26:51Speaker 5: would take on the culture of the Vikings. The Vikings
- 26:53Speaker 5: are winning, they have something to play for. He has
- 26:56Speaker 5: an opportunity to go into the postseason.
- 26:57Speaker 4: And do some stuff.
- 26:58Speaker 5: I would expect to see the best that we've seen
- 27:00Speaker 5: from camp in a little while.
- 27:02Speaker 3: And he's been the last couple of years, especially you know,
- 27:04Speaker 3: if you needed an edge on offense, he was the
- 27:06Speaker 3: guy that would grab another player's face mask and rip
- 27:08Speaker 3: the hell He got.
- 27:09Speaker 6: Ejected one time, Yes, in day one, he's done that.
- 27:11Speaker 3: He's kind of been that guy and we haven't seen
- 27:14Speaker 3: that yet this year. So well, this week might be
- 27:18Speaker 3: the week. We'll see what happens. It's gonna be a
- 27:20Speaker 3: great matchup. We're back in a moment plenty ahead. We'll
- 27:22Speaker 3: flip it around and take a look at the Jaguars
- 27:25Speaker 3: offense against the Vikings defense that takes the football away
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- 27:39Speaker 1: Huddle up with Bucky Brooks.
- 27:46Speaker 8: We're running our base stuff. Yeah, we're just kind of
- 27:50Speaker 8: moving moving Bury when that happens. So you know, we'll
- 27:54Speaker 8: look at everything. We're gonna trust the coaches in the
- 27:56Speaker 8: plan they put together. So but yeah, we got to
- 27:59Speaker 8: continue to be great that we just got. We guys
- 28:02Speaker 8: improved our normal gone and distance huddle calls too, so
- 28:08Speaker 8: you can't just rely on that. We got to be
- 28:09Speaker 8: able to break the huddle call, different game plan plays, execute.
- 28:13Speaker 3: Its Evan Ingram with John Ozer lurking behind him in
- 28:16Speaker 3: the locker room today, welcome back. It's huddle up with
- 28:19Speaker 3: Bucky Brooks, Jay Shadrick and John Oser and Jacksonville. Bucky
- 28:22Speaker 3: Brooks in Los Angeles and Evan Ingram with one hundred
- 28:26Speaker 3: and thirty nine receptions since twenty twenty three, second most
- 28:29Speaker 3: among all tight ends and eight most overall in the NFL,
- 28:32Speaker 3: and he's been okay since coming back from injury, twenty
- 28:35Speaker 3: four catches two hundred and eighteen receiving yards since coming
- 28:38Speaker 3: back in Week six. But hey, the Jaguars this week,
- 28:41Speaker 3: we already talked about the question mark at the quarterback position.
- 28:44Speaker 3: That's obviously priority number one. We'll see what happens as
- 28:46Speaker 3: the week goes along with Trevor Lawrence and Mac Jones
- 28:49Speaker 3: and the reps and everything that goes into that. They're
- 28:52Speaker 3: going against the Vikings defense, Bucky. That is, they're the
- 28:56Speaker 3: number of the second highest blitz rate in the NFL.
- 28:59Speaker 3: Bryan runs the show there on defense. They're not scared
- 29:02Speaker 3: to bring it a bunch of different ways. They take
- 29:04Speaker 3: the ball away second most in the NFL, most interceptions
- 29:07Speaker 3: in the league.
- 29:09Speaker 1: You see it on your screen. The scoring defense, they don't.
- 29:12Speaker 3: They allowed seventeen or fewer in five of their eight
- 29:15Speaker 3: games this year. So this is a really talented defense.
- 29:19Speaker 3: But what makes them so talented, Bucky.
- 29:22Speaker 5: What makes them talented is Brian Flooryes is super aggressive
- 29:26Speaker 5: in terms of how he goes after the quarterback, but
- 29:27Speaker 5: he does it and what I call a safe fashion.
- 29:30Speaker 5: He has taken something that has been used like wildfire
- 29:34Speaker 5: at the collegiate level, and he has made it his
- 29:35Speaker 5: own at the NFL level. You were here Parkour football
- 29:39Speaker 5: people talk about what they call.
- 29:41Speaker 4: Them hot blitzes.
- 29:42Speaker 5: So what it is is a six or seven man pressure,
- 29:45Speaker 5: but you're playing zone behind it. The fear used to
- 29:48Speaker 5: be when you were bringing six or seven you would
- 29:50Speaker 5: have to play man demand. Well, what these guys are
- 29:52Speaker 5: doing is they're playing with their eyes on the quarterback.
- 29:55Speaker 4: They're bringing pressure and.
- 29:56Speaker 5: So the quarterback has to get it off and then
- 29:58Speaker 5: they're reacting quick to the throw. But they're adding layers
- 30:02Speaker 5: to it defensively by not only blitzing like that. When
- 30:06Speaker 5: there they're bluffing and disguising and falling into these eight
- 30:10Speaker 5: man drops where it's a three man brush, it's eight
- 30:13Speaker 5: guys in coverage, and so the quarterback and play caller
- 30:16Speaker 5: are playing a guessing game the entire night, and it's unusual.
- 30:20Speaker 5: It's unlike anything that anybody else is doing. It is
- 30:23Speaker 5: going to test the patients, the discipline and the overall
- 30:27Speaker 5: awareness of the quarterback to deal with the defense that
- 30:29Speaker 5: likes to do this stuff.
- 30:30Speaker 6: And that can be exhausting for a quarterback. You have
- 30:32Speaker 6: to do that mentally. The whole game. I can remember
- 30:35Speaker 6: the US to cover the Colts back in the day. Yeah,
- 30:38Speaker 6: And I can remember there were games after they played
- 30:40Speaker 6: the Ravens, for example, where Peyton would talk about just
- 30:43Speaker 6: being tired mentally because it took so much thought every
- 30:47Speaker 6: play to trying to figure out what's going on. So
- 30:49Speaker 6: here's the question, is, Bucky, how do you combat it?
- 30:51Speaker 6: What's what do offenses do? I mean, it's a way
- 30:54Speaker 6: to beat everything. What's the key?
- 30:57Speaker 4: You gotta be on your p's and q's.
- 30:59Speaker 5: Man, you got to dialog to Teams that have had
- 31:01Speaker 5: success have found a way to kind of stay ahead
- 31:03Speaker 5: of the change. They've been able to run the football
- 31:05Speaker 5: at that. But I mean, it's a guessing game. It's
- 31:07Speaker 5: a bit of a shell game that Brian Floyd's likes
- 31:09Speaker 5: to utilize against the quarterback and the play caller, and
- 31:13Speaker 5: so you have to be able to get into it.
- 31:15Speaker 5: One of the things that is an old school cap
- 31:18Speaker 5: tactic against it is to play a little quicker and
- 31:21Speaker 5: with tempo. Now it doesn't mean that you're going no
- 31:24Speaker 5: huddle up tempo right away, but it could be as
- 31:27Speaker 5: simple as here, go play comes in, huddle up, get
- 31:31Speaker 5: out the huddle, line up, first sound, go don't allow
- 31:35Speaker 5: them to do a lot of that bluffing and disguising
- 31:37Speaker 5: by going quickly on first down early to then give
- 31:41Speaker 5: yourself a chance to play against more of their vanilla
- 31:43Speaker 5: looks as opposed to the exotic crazy stuff. Final point,
- 31:47Speaker 5: can't get in third and long situations. If you're in
- 31:49Speaker 5: third and seven plus, you're playing right into the hands
- 31:52Speaker 5: of that monster.
- 31:53Speaker 4: You gotta stay ahead of the chains. This will have.
- 31:56Speaker 5: To be the best play calling performance of Press, Taylor
- 31:59Speaker 5: and Doug that we've seen today because his defense is
- 32:01Speaker 5: that good.
- 32:02Speaker 6: I have a final question before we move on from
- 32:04Speaker 6: the Vikings. Yes, and this is me just covering one
- 32:09Speaker 6: team and not being in depth with the rest of
- 32:10Speaker 6: the league as much as I'd like to be, But Bucky,
- 32:15Speaker 6: to me, the Vikings are quietly a really consistent, really
- 32:20Speaker 6: good franchise. I would necessarily say they're Ravens, Steelers, Packers consistent,
- 32:26Speaker 6: but they've been good for a while, even with different coaches,
- 32:30Speaker 6: different personnel. What do they do right? Why are they
- 32:34Speaker 6: able to be so consistent?
- 32:37Speaker 5: Here's what I'll say about the Minnesota Vikings and why
- 32:39Speaker 5: they've been able to get it right. One to head
- 32:41Speaker 5: coach is really smart, really bright. Kevin O'Connell. Kevin O'Connell
- 32:45Speaker 5: played in New England, was drafted by New England.
- 32:46Speaker 4: He's taken dis and pieces of that.
- 32:48Speaker 5: He's taken what he's learned from Sean McVay and those
- 32:50Speaker 5: guys along the way.
- 32:52Speaker 4: So he's really good.
- 32:54Speaker 5: He written hired a really good coach and Brian Flores
- 32:56Speaker 5: and the coaches are really good in terms of developing players,
- 32:59Speaker 5: but really being on it when it comes to situational awareness.
- 33:02Speaker 4: The organization is a plus when.
- 33:05Speaker 5: You talk to people that work in the building, whether
- 33:08Speaker 5: it's on the business side or the football side, a plus,
- 33:11Speaker 5: first class and everything they do so they're able to
- 33:13Speaker 5: retain good people because they treat them well. And so
- 33:17Speaker 5: it's one of those environments that we can talk about
- 33:19Speaker 5: the weather and challenges of bringing players up there, but
- 33:22Speaker 5: because they treat their people in such a good manner,
- 33:27Speaker 5: they don't want to go anywhere. And so when you
- 33:29Speaker 5: have a happy environment, you have more production, more enthusiasm
- 33:34Speaker 5: when it comes to performing.
- 33:35Speaker 4: That's what you're getting when you get the Minnesota Vikings.
- 33:37Speaker 6: Yeah, they've been striking. They switched head coaches, yeah, and
- 33:41Speaker 6: again haven't gotten to the Super Bowl, so I think
- 33:42Speaker 6: a lot of people miss it. But they're a consistent
- 33:47Speaker 6: and I do rankings each week and with like every
- 33:52Speaker 6: week I'm putting them at for four or five, six
- 33:54Speaker 6: years putting them at eight, and not really sure why
- 33:56Speaker 6: they're that good, but they always wind up being there
- 33:59Speaker 6: at the end and you look up in there and
- 34:02Speaker 6: they won five in a row. So an impressive organization.
- 34:06Speaker 3: They've had cousins for a little while, certainly before his
- 34:09Speaker 3: move to Atlanta, and then now they've kind of fell
- 34:12Speaker 3: into Darnold and he's playing well. After they drafted a
- 34:15Speaker 3: quarterback or earlier this year got hurt in training camp.
- 34:19Speaker 3: Here's a big question. I don't know how it's a
- 34:22Speaker 3: little off topic. You mentioned Brian Flores, former head coach.
- 34:27Speaker 3: You think he'll get a shot again Bucky.
- 34:30Speaker 4: I think at some point he will.
- 34:32Speaker 5: Now the lawsuit and all that kind of clouds everything.
- 34:35Speaker 5: But let me know what I would say about Brian
- 34:37Speaker 5: Flores is he made some missteps the first time around
- 34:41Speaker 5: in Miami and that was related to relationships. In those things,
- 34:45Speaker 5: I don't think you can question how well they played
- 34:48Speaker 5: and how they performed offensively. He has to figure out
- 34:51Speaker 5: how to find the right coordinator for what he wants
- 34:53Speaker 5: because he went through a few offensive coordinators, but defensive defensively,
- 34:56Speaker 5: they're one of the tops in the league. They gave
- 34:58Speaker 5: you problems he coaches. I think he's learned from his
- 35:03Speaker 5: problems that he had, particularly with two tongue, by lowering
- 35:05Speaker 5: some of the other players there.
- 35:06Speaker 4: He'll be a much better coach the second go around.
- 35:10Speaker 5: But he might just be destined to be one of
- 35:11Speaker 5: those great coordinators that we always talk about it. I mean,
- 35:14Speaker 5: this team is like lights out. They're really connected offense defense,
- 35:18Speaker 5: special teams in terms of playing confidend and re ball.
- 35:21Speaker 5: I'll say it's one of the best situations that you
- 35:23Speaker 5: can find where you have a former head coach as
- 35:25Speaker 5: a defensive coordinator who gets the big picture that allows
- 35:29Speaker 5: the offensive mind to head coach to do what he
- 35:32Speaker 5: does really well, which is be the play caller and
- 35:34Speaker 5: the overall leader.
- 35:35Speaker 4: They really have it going on in Minnesota.
- 35:37Speaker 3: All right, we'll come back with our final thoughts about
- 35:41Speaker 3: this Vikings Jaguars matchup in week number ten.
- 35:45Speaker 1: It is huddle up with bucking crumpts.
- 35:54Speaker 4: That's the goal I'm doing ever that can to be
- 35:56Speaker 4: out there.
- 35:58Speaker 1: You know, and like it's in the past, I've gotten
- 36:00Speaker 1: thinged up in the past.
- 36:01Speaker 4: I've just tried to evering candy in the week, pre
- 36:02Speaker 4: for myself to play.
- 36:03Speaker 8: Sunday and just as much time as possible into that
- 36:06Speaker 8: and getting healthy.
- 36:07Speaker 4: So that's the way my mind is right now.
- 36:12Speaker 3: That's the quarterback, Trevor Lawrence. We'll see how his status continues.
- 36:16Speaker 1: This week.
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- 36:35Speaker 3: Tough stretch continues Vikings this week at the Lions, the
- 36:38Speaker 3: bye week, and then the Texans come to town. That's
- 36:43Speaker 3: just the nature of it this time of year. We
- 36:45Speaker 3: knew that this five game stretch was going to be
- 36:47Speaker 3: a challenge. Certainly is with the Vikings six and two,
- 36:50Speaker 3: and they're right in the race in the toughest division
- 36:52Speaker 3: in football, the NFC North. The Lions lead the way there.
- 36:56Speaker 3: Minnesota six and two, Green Bay six and three, Chicago
- 37:00Speaker 3: four and four. So you know Minnesota is gonna be
- 37:03Speaker 3: locked in and ready and because they need every game
- 37:06Speaker 3: they can get right now, Bucky, Yeah.
- 37:10Speaker 5: This is this is interesting because that division is the
- 37:13Speaker 5: best in bold and we just think about back to
- 37:15Speaker 5: back weeks.
- 37:16Speaker 4: I mean, just like I mean, this month.
- 37:19Speaker 5: Was was was not ideal in terms of like facing
- 37:21Speaker 5: all those teams. But when you think about the Green
- 37:23Speaker 5: Bay Packers and then back to back weeks the Minnesota
- 37:25Speaker 5: Vikings and the Detroit Lions, I mean, two of the
- 37:28Speaker 5: best teams in football, this is a tough little stretch
- 37:31Speaker 5: and what you're dealing with they talk about the Black
- 37:33Speaker 5: and Blue Division. The Jaguars are being exposed to the
- 37:38Speaker 5: rough and rugged physicality that these teams played with, and
- 37:42Speaker 5: so you got to get ready for it.
- 37:44Speaker 4: It takes it up a notch.
- 37:45Speaker 5: It reminds me of being with the Jaguars and playing
- 37:48Speaker 5: the old Pittsburgh Stillers teams.
- 37:50Speaker 4: In the past.
- 37:52Speaker 5: This is what it's like, and this is what it's
- 37:53Speaker 5: gonna be like the next two weeks because both of
- 37:55Speaker 5: those teams prefer to play pick football with their big
- 37:58Speaker 5: boy pats on.
- 37:59Speaker 6: Yeah, what you worry about is Uh, you know, you
- 38:02Speaker 6: had a couple of games in a row where you've
- 38:06Speaker 6: really had to grind it out, play tough, haven't gotten
- 38:12Speaker 6: the results you wanted, laid it all out, played to
- 38:16Speaker 6: the last whistle if you will. You worry about how
- 38:20Speaker 6: long you can keep doing that when you don't get
- 38:23Speaker 6: the results. And you know, at some point, often when
- 38:27Speaker 6: you're struggling, have a couple of fight, fight, fight, and
- 38:30Speaker 6: then you have one where it goes.
- 38:31Speaker 4: Off the rails.
- 38:32Speaker 6: Uh, I hope. I'm hoping that doesn't happen, goes the
- 38:37Speaker 6: other way. But that's what you sort of watch for
- 38:39Speaker 6: having seen situations like this is when it's just a yeah,
- 38:45Speaker 6: I can't do it again.
- 38:46Speaker 8: Uh.
- 38:46Speaker 6: Now I don't anticipate that because somebody actually asked me,
- 38:49Speaker 6: do you feel like they're quitting, giving up on Doug whatever?
- 38:54Speaker 6: And I'm like, if you watch the last two games,
- 38:57Speaker 6: you haven't seen that.
- 38:58Speaker 1: No way.
- 38:59Speaker 6: I found a silly question because I don't know. I
- 39:03Speaker 6: don't talk to players, but you watch these games last
- 39:05Speaker 6: couple weeks. This is a team with heart, isn't even fight. Unfortunately,
- 39:09Speaker 6: fight doesn't matter if you don't win, So it's there.
- 39:15Speaker 3: And with the injury bug, continuing. I mean at some
- 39:17Speaker 3: point that that attrition is gonna catch up.
- 39:19Speaker 6: It's hard to have, thank you, and I have to
- 39:21Speaker 6: talk about the stamina, you know, can you keep We
- 39:25Speaker 6: talked about it for the game. That's why I told
- 39:27Speaker 6: him I was worried about against Green Bay. It's do
- 39:29Speaker 6: you have the stamina to finish when it's really hard
- 39:33Speaker 6: against a physical team and you're not in it that
- 39:35Speaker 6: it's hard to fight through that. I think it's gonna
- 39:37Speaker 6: be an issue again this or it's going to be
- 39:38Speaker 6: a storyline to watch again on Sunday.
- 39:41Speaker 5: But yes, I'm interested in storyline to watch. And you
- 39:44Speaker 5: talked about the competitive stamina and just being able to
- 39:47Speaker 5: kind of deal with all the things that you have
- 39:49Speaker 5: to deal with when you're.
- 39:49Speaker 4: An elite team.
- 39:51Speaker 5: Like one of the things that we talk about that
- 39:53Speaker 5: what separates good from grading the league is the ability
- 39:56Speaker 5: to show up each and every week and bring your
- 39:58Speaker 5: A level performance. It's never done where you can bring
- 40:02Speaker 5: your A game each week. But the really good teams
- 40:05Speaker 5: are able to play at a high level and even
- 40:07Speaker 5: when they're a little off, they find another.
- 40:10Speaker 4: Level to go to in a game to get a win.
- 40:12Speaker 4: We're seeing that right now.
- 40:13Speaker 5: With kan City, who we all feel like hasn't played
- 40:15Speaker 5: their best game, but yet they sit at the top
- 40:17Speaker 5: of the league undefeated.
- 40:19Speaker 4: It's the same thing.
- 40:20Speaker 5: That you look at when you look at Minnesota and
- 40:22Speaker 5: Detroit and some of those other teams. It's one of
- 40:24Speaker 5: the things that the Jaguars need to learn once they
- 40:27Speaker 5: start winning games, how to kind of put that together
- 40:30Speaker 5: when you can run off six seven in a row
- 40:32Speaker 5: despite whatever adversity you may be facing internally.
- 40:35Speaker 3: All Right, that'll do it for the show today, Bucky,
- 40:39Speaker 3: have a great week. We'll see you here at the
- 40:41Speaker 3: Bank on Sunday.
- 40:42Speaker 4: Man appreciate it should be fun.
- 40:45Speaker 3: Oh, it's gonna be fun. That's Bucky Brooks in Los Angeles.
- 40:49Speaker 3: Sean Oser. I'm JP Shattercker. Thanks to David Choe, Brent Reaver,
- 40:53Speaker 3: Joe Fortunado, our entire Jaguars dot Com crew.
- 40:56Speaker 1: This is Huddle Up with Bucky Brooks.